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And of course, Glenn would never -- NEVER!-- sift through rightie sites cherrypicking comments and attributing them to the rightie "mindset," right?
I mean, except when he does (as was documented yesterday).
Cherry pick: "to select with great care only a few items out of many."
Representative: "One that serves as an example or type for others of the same classification."
Selecting a few comments from one post in order to imply that an entire group feels a certain way is "cherry picking." That's what happened with the HuffPost.
Selecting HUNDREDS of comments from many posts from several different sites is called a "representative sample." That's what Glenn did.
Apples vs. oranges.
